Just wonderin if anyone else ran into this problem. You can set up Eclipse to use an external tool (in this case the IRB) to launch in Eclipse in a console session, and can specify a working directory to easily import classes. This does work becasue I was able to do this on a windows machine. But on my new MacBook Prow OS X 10.4.7 and Ruby 1.8.4 installed from Darwin ports, eclipse 3.2 and Java 1.5.x I have not been able to get this to work. Every time I try to launch IRB I get an "Operation in Progress" window that never times out or goes away until I manualy close the window and can not get the details of why it is failing. Any one else see this? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.